Reliance Jio will pioneer the 5G revolution in India in the second half of 2021, said Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday in the inaugural speech at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2020.
Sharing his ideas to make India the world’s preeminent digital society with ease of living for all, Reliance Jio chairman said the country is among the best digitally connected nations in the world, and to maintain the lead, policy steps are needed to accelerate an early rollout of 5G, and to make it affordable and available everywhere.
Ambani asserted that the Reliance Jio 5G network will be powered by the indigenous-developed network, hardware, and technology components. Jio’s 5G service will be a testimony to the government of India’s Atmanirbhar Bharat mission, he added.
“I can say with utmost confidence that 5G will enable India to not only participate in the fourth industrial revolution but also lead it,” said Mukesh Ambani at IMC 2020.
Finally, Ambani made a call to action to turn India into a hardware manufacturing hub and marked union minister R.S. Prasad’s efforts to attract the biggest technology companies to come and manufacture their hardware in India. He further underlined that to strengthen and complete the digital transformation, India cannot remain reliant on large-scale imports from other nations, and underlined India’s potential as a major, cutting edge semiconductor fabrication industry. “When all the stakeholders work together, we can surely ensure that India’s success in hardware will match our success in software,” said Ambani.